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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 20, 2024

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  1. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) vs Microsoft
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  2. BSD Leftovers
    OpenBSD, BSDCan, and More
  3. today's leftovers
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  4. Windows TCO: Microsoft Causes Chaos, Even Kills People (Again)
    Major incidents again
  5. Our Gemini Capsule is Turning Two [original]
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  6. KaOS Linux 2024.07 Released with KDE Plasma 6.1 and Linux Kernel 6.9
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  7. Free, Libre, and Open Source Software Leftovers
    FOSS picks for today
  8. Programming/Development Leftovers
    KDE, Mozilla, and more
  9. Android Leftovers
    Why does Android Auto have new icons
  10. Mini review – Maintain focused productivity with Blanket for Linux
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  11. Apache Software Foundation Becomes Politics
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  12. Android Leftovers
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  13. Nvidia News
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  14. Immich Introduces Licensing in the Latest Update
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  15. today's howtos
    many howtos
  16. Pulsar 1.119 Code Editor Brings Refined Tools and Fixes
    Pulsar 1.119, a free & open-source cross-platform code editor
  17. GNOME’s New Video Player is Now Available on Flathub
    Were you excited by news GNOME plans to replace the Totem media player in its core software set with a new, modern, and actively maintained app called Showtime
  18. Best Free and Open Source Software
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  19. Collections of Different Linux Distributions
    A distro provides the user with a desktop environment, preloaded applications, and ways to update and maintain the system
  20. Top 7 Open Source CAD Software & AutoCAD Alternatives
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  21. OrangePi 5 Max SBC with M.2 Key Slot and 2.5GbE LAN Port
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  22. Stable kernels: Linux 6.9.10, Linux 6.6.41, Linux 6.1.100, Linux 5.15.163, Linux 5.10.222, Linux 5.4.280, and Linux 4.19.318
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  23. Peter de Schrijver RIP
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  24. Largely Open Source GitLab Is Evidently for Sale and Datadog Is Interested
    People close to GitLab have told Reuters that the DevOps pipeline service is looking for a buyer and that cloud monitoring company Datadog is expressing an interest
  25. Today in Techrights
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    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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    1057 /n/2024/07/13/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    934 /n/2024/07/16/Mozilla_Selling_Out_Firefox_Users.shtml
    893 /n/2024/07/15/Ubuntu_24_04_LTS_Can_Now_Do_What_It_Should_Have_Always_Done.shtml
    848 /n/2024/07/13/TrueNAS_24_04_1_1.shtml
    804 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_howtos.shtml
    793 /n/2024/07/13/today_s_howtos.shtml
    787 /n/2024/07/13/GNOME_47_Alpha_Desktop_Environment_Released_with_Support_for_Ac.shtml
    764 /n/2024/07/12/TUXEDO_launches_InfinityBook_Pro_14_Gen9_Linux_laptop.shtml
    758 /n/2024/07/14/RISC_V_Based_Lichee_Pi_3A_with_16GB_RAM_and_PCIe_Support.shtml
    753 /n/2024/07/13/Reaching_Higher.shtml
    750 /n/2024/07/16/Audacity_3_6_Open_Source_Audio_Editor_Released_with_Master_Effe.shtml
    741 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    737 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_howtos.shtml
    733 /n/2024/07/12/OBS_Studio_30_2_Released_with_NVENC_AV1_Support_on_Linux_Unifie.shtml
    731 /n/2024/07/16/KDE_Plasma_6_1_3_Improves_Flatpak_Support_in_Discover_Fixes_Mor.shtml
    726 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_howtos.1.shtml
    720 /n/2024/07/15/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    717 /n/2024/07/14/Android_Leftovers.shtml
    713 /n/2024/07/13/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
    712 /n/2024/07/14/today_s_leftovers.shtml
    706 /n/2024/07/16/Recore_A8_An_Allwinner_A64_powered_3D_printer_control_board_wit.shtml
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